When I was a child I remember hearing humans came from monkeys. I asked myself, "Then why are monkeys still around?" A valid question. The problem with the initial statement though is that we did not come from monkeys, but rather we share a common ancestor. When it comes to common ancestors and evolution, genetic sequencing has provided a great understanding.

I use Procrastination every day to make my life better. I do the things I want to do . I figure out what I need to delegate. I brainstorm ideas, and I find clues buried in my subconscious about what my future will look like.

Maybe you’re among the six, seven, eight or I-don’t-know-how-many million people who have seen the video of that Dutch man-bird who fluttered about in a park with a camera attached to his helmet. Since the video launched some two weeks ago, the typical river of comments that tends to follow a well-made viral video transformed into a torrent of mouth-open incredulousness and angry disbelief. Is Nintendo behind the Human Birdwings Project? Is this a CIA disinformation campaign? And so on and so forth throughout the week, until the Human Birdman came crashing down to earth. Wired even put up a thorough technical analysis of the video.

Computer scientist Hava Siegelmann of the Biologically Inspired Neural & Dynamical Systems (BINDS) Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an expert in neural networks, has taken Alan Turing’s work to its next logical step.

She is translating her 1993 discovery of what she has dubbed “Super-Turing” computation into an adaptable computational system that learns and evolves, using input from the environment in a way much more like our brains do than classic Turing-type computers.

Japan marked the one year anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami. Voting took place in Myanmar in what was hailed as a step towards democratic change. A shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse rocked France. 70 PHOTOS

ECCEROBOT is an anthropomimetic robot. It is outfitted with bones, muscles, and even tendons in order to move the way that humans do. It does this very well, and it’s creepy to watch. Extra creepy thanks to it’s cyclops face and complete lack of skin.

Hydrogen is a fuel that has seemingly limitless potential, but scientists have only been able to produce it from fossil fuels, like natural gas. That is, until now. A doctoral student in mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware has designed a new type of reactor that produces hydrogen using nothing more than concentrated sunlight, zinc oxide, and water. And best of all, the zinc oxide used by the reactor can be reused, meaning that once the reactor is up and running, it would be self-sustaining.

3D schmee-dee. While everyone is off chasing the third dimension with their dorky 3D glasses and parallax barrier 3D video handhelds, we're forgetting the beauty that a flat photograph can hold. This series of animated photos by NY photographer Jamie Beck takes a different approach to making photos come to life — GIFs.

(The above image there is static — the ones you're looking for are down below in our gallery. Click to get this moving image party started!)

Are you one of the millions of Americans who suffer from the addiction of popping bubble wrap? Do you have to ensure that every last pocket of air is destroyed before you can return to your regular routine?

If this sounds like you, then this video of almost 38 square feet of bubble wrap being completely destroyed in an industrial press should be just about the most satisfying thing you'll see all weekend.

The Wakhan corridor located in the northeastern corner of Afghanistan, is a less-traveled region by foreigners. French photographers Fabrice Nadjari and Cedric Houin (aka Varial) decided to journey off to the remote district because of their growing fascination with the country, further heightened by a New York Times article about the area. Being that the land is so rarely visited, the duo's photo series titled Wakhan, An Other Afghanistan is incredibly fascinating.

Sir Richard Branson is at it again. The globetrotting billionaire has announced his latest exploration venture -- Virgin Volcanic, which plans to charter trips into active volcanoes, the first such travel of its kind.

On April 1, Virgin Volcanic will officially unveil VVS1, a state-of-the-art submersible that uses "carbon-carbon" materials originally developed for deep space travel, which will be capable of transporting three passengers into the molten lava core of active volcanos.

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